We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Azure Purview is a very new product in the Data Governance space. It is currently tremendously limited, as it only functions reliably with Microsoft Azure products. Many users feel it lacks maturity, but for the Microsoft Azure user, it is an appropriate choice. Informatica Axon is considered a leader in the Data Governance space, providing a plethora of value-added features. It is a reliable, stable, and trusted solution.
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is that it is flexible and user-friendly."
"The solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon has been the data marketplace."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"It is a scalable product."
"The solution is stable."
"From my experience and customer feedback, one of the most valuable features of Microsoft Purview is ease of use, especially for content hosted within Microsoft 365 and Azure. I also like that the pricing model for the solution is reasonable."
"It is pretty early, but the decision to go with this investment was largely driven by the simplification of our information security technology management stack. That is the primary objective. Once you simplify and you have a connected structure, it allows for faster adoption there. It also gives us additional capabilities as we go on using the technology that we are familiar with, and we do not have to depend on outside parties to come in and tell us how to do certain things."
"It is critical that Purview delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments. That is the number one reason that people are adopting hybrid and best-of-the-breed approaches. Especially in banking, it is critical because people want to protect, govern, and secure their data. This is one of the first conversations that happens with security and the architecture group on the client side."
"The most significant value lies in its seamless integration into the Azure ecosystem, automating various processes and reducing operational burdens."
"I use the tool in projects as a medium to provide information as reports to the stakeholders."
"Has a good interface and is reasonably priced."
"MIP also provides strong information rights management settings, such as the ability to specify who has access to content and at what time."
"The product has helped us save both time and money."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"The GUI needs to be a little more user-friendly and appealing."
"Informatica Axon needs to improve its interface."
"It would be great if the cloud version could match the full range of capabilities available on-premise."
"I would like to see more API integration to have the capability to build a report using other third party reporting tools to streamline the operation."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster."
"Purview's data connector platform for non-Microsoft data sources is good, but there is some functionality that hasn't been developed yet. There are some servers that it can't connect to yet, because they're still in a trial process."
"Overcoming certain control issues would significantly enhance our overall satisfaction."
"One area for improvement is the detection of data types. This is really important. It has some of that functionality, but I consider it very limited. Maybe they can add some custom programming or machine learning could be particularly useful for the detection of the nature of the data."
"One drawback of Microsoft Purview, though it's beneficial and easy to use, is that when you start plugging in connectors for third-party sources when setting the solution up for data collection, it becomes a bit more tricky."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"Data quality has been a highly requested feature among customers."
"Some of the menu headings may not be easy to understand for some people."
"As Microsoft Purview got a little more mature, the deployments got a little more complex, as we were kind of seeing that there are a lot of ways, like there were a hundred ways to do one thing or less."
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Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Informatica Axon writes "It has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Informatica Axon is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Microsoft Purview Information Protection, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage. See our Informatica Axon vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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